Re: CLUSTER, using SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jonathan Scher
Subject Re: CLUSTER, using SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock?
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Msg-id 45E7FDA3.7080507@oxado.com
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In response to Re: CLUSTER, using SHARE UPDATE EXCLUSIVE lock?  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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> That's lock upgrading, which opens you up to deadlocks. If another
> process grabs a lock after your update exclusive, you're not going to
> be able to upgrade it.
>
>   

OK I got the point.
Is it possible to create a new table-level lock mode that says "OK, now 
I'm on share level, but soon I will upgrade it to exclusive". Then it 
would be possible to allow any read-only operation, and to forbid all 
operation that would need to upgrade.
I know that there is a sx_try_upgrade function on freeBSD kernel (man 
sx), so I guess there is a way to do it, isn't it?

Regards,
Jonathan Scher


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